📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Youth sector of the Val d’Amboise District, The social center of Charles Pegut, and the Youth Information desk are three organizations working side by side with the youth from the city of Amboise.
Around inclusion, animation of the district life, youth information, these social actors work together with Concordia to propose a common action in order to bring together young people with various origins and backgrounds.
This first cooperation will allow international young people and local young people to meet and build strong links of friendship while constructing and creating activities together in a popular district. Indeed, a group of 10 young people of Amboise will regularly participate in workshops and leisure activities, with the 15 volunteers from Concordia.
You will have the opportunity to celebrate the local festivities of July, especially the fireworks on the 14th of July. You will also discover the local heritage by visiting the Castle of Amboise and Leonard da Vinci’s house of Clos Luce…
💼 What the programme involves
You will build a wooden mobile library. This library will be used by the district associations’ to organise workshops.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In collective tents on the camp-site, boys and girls separated; sanitary facilities in a building close to the sleeping place; cooking and eating under a big tent outside. If you have a tent, please bring it. The meals will be taken in a room in the mill with the volunteers of the organization. The group will be sharing the cleaning chores and preparing meals together. The budget will be allocated to the group leader and you will participate in the preparation of dishes with good products from the market and local producers.
📍 About the location
Located in the Indre-et-Loire County and Centre region.
At the heart of the Val de Loire, classified in the UNESCO world heritage in conformance with "cultural living landscape ", the city owes its reputation to the castle of Amboise, the vast residence of Charles VIII in the XVth century, which shelters the grave of Leonard da Vinci, royal apartments, gardens and subterranean corridors. On the outskirts of the town, the castle of Clos Luce is the former residence of Leonard da Vinci, where he lived until his death in 1519. It includes a small museum exposing models of his creations.
More information about the town: www.ville-amboise.fr
⚠️ Requirements
As the workcamp takes place in an urban area, for practical and eco-friendly reasons, you will have to use bikes for local transportation. You will need to be able to cycle by consequence.
Please bring good shoes and working clothes. As the nights can be quite cold, remember also to bring warm clothes. Don’t forget to bring a sleeping-mat, a warm sleeping bag (and a tent if you own one).
Foreigners belonging to the European Union must bring with them a personal EHIC (European Health Insurance Card), and everybody must, in any case, bring their insurance certificate. If health issues happen on the project, volunteers will have to pay for it, and then be reimbursed once back in their home country.
ℹ️ Additional information
Meeting point:
Amboise train station.
Closest airport:
Paris